relief
\ʁə.ljɛf\
The verdict
“relief” has 8 generated spelling variants in the French index at frequency #6,434. The variants make it a useful spelling check.
- #6,434
- frequency rank, French
- 5,742
- “R” headwords
- 8
- tracked misspellings
- 20
- confusable pairs
According to Wiktionary data (CC BY-SA, analyzed September 3, 2026) - Restes des mets qu’on a servis.
Corpus desk
Index FR-relief · relief · French
relief · rank #6,434 · 8 variants · 20 confusables
- FREQ-COMMON #6,434
- LEN-LONG 6 letters
- VOW-3 3 vowels
- CONFUS-HIGH 20 pairs
- VAR-MID 8 variants
- BOOK-DENSE 5,742
- PHOTO-FINISH reconnais
Nearest frequency peer: reconnais (-1 rank slots)
Desk codes from Wiktionary headword shape, FrequencyWords rank tier, confusable-pair count, generated misspelling depth, letter-cohort book size, and photo-finish peer. Not a difficulty grade.
Pairs de rang près de l'aimant d'erreurs « relief »
Même bande de rareté: utile si une faute tombe sur un lemme voisin
- rassurer
rassurer
93,570 corpus weight
- recommencer
recommencer
93,569 corpus weight
- reconnais
reconnais
93,568 corpus weight
- relief
relief
93,567 corpus weight
- renvoyer
renvoyer
93,566 corpus weight
- richesses
richesses
93,565 corpus weight
What this shows « relief » siège parmi ces pairs FrequencyWords; la profondeur des fautes est suivie à part dans le graphique d'édition.
Visual similarity to commonly confused words
How many letter changes separate each confused pair (Levenshtein distance, normalized).
Source: PlainSpell confusable corpus (Wiktionary, CC BY-SA).
| Property | Value |
|---|---|
| Headword | relief |
| Language | French |
| Part of speech | Noun |
| IPA | \ʁə.ljɛf\ |
| Letters | 6 |
| Frequency rank | #6,434 |
| Misspellings tracked | 8 |
| Confusable pairs | 20 |
| Source | Wiktionary (kaikki.org) |
Fréquence de l'aimant d'erreurs « relief »
A misspelling magnet
The generator records 8 spelling variants around relief (IPA \ʁə.ljɛf\), anoun. Corpus frequency is #6,434 among 5,742 “R” headwords. Wiktionary lists 2 senses, so context still picks the gloss.
Our generated misspelling index lists 8 likely wrong-spelling variants for relief, with forms such as "erlief", "reilef", and "releif". Every one of these variants traces to a single-character edit -- an added or dropped letter, a swapped consonant, or a vowel swap -- the kind of slip a spell-checker is built to catch. It also participates in 20 confusable-pair relationships, "relis", "renié", "relit", and more, where similar look or sound leads writers to substitute one word for another in context.
No borrowing history is documented for this entry, so any spelling logic here comes from how the word's sounds map to letters, not a documented origin story. The correct French form is relief, spelled R-E-L-I-E-F.
Definition
- 1Restes des mets qu’on a servis.
- 2Droit que le vassal payait à son seigneur pour relever un fief.
Recorded use
Wiktionary examplesThese source excerpts show how relief appears in context. They illustrate usage; the definition above remains the entry’s reference meaning.
Nul autre ne se fit alors entendre, sauf les voix des domestiques, qui […] se disputaient entre eux les restes de vin et les reliefs des repas que l’on avait servis aux spectateurs.
Elle se dirigea vers un marchand d’arlequins. Triste endroit pour souper ! On y servait, réuni sur une seule assiette, un mélange hétéroclite (d’où son nom) de reliefs plus ou moins avariés, collectés dans les restaurants voisins.
This word in other languages
Common misspellings
Also misspelled as:
- erlief
- reilef
- releif
- relieff
- relife
- rellief
- rleief
- rrelief
Misspelling Pattern Breakdown
How far each generated variant is from the correct spelling of relief - counted as single-character edits (an insertion, a deletion, or a substituted letter). The larger the bar, the easier the typo is to spot; one-edit slips are the ones that sneak past readers.
Definitions, pronunciation, and etymology for this entry are drawn from Wiktionary via the kaikki.org structured extract (CC BY-SA); frequency ordering uses the FrequencyWords open word-frequency list (2018 French corpus, MIT). See the methodology for how each field is sourced and updated.
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Similar French words by spelling shape
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Same letter count
Frequency-ranked French headwords with 6 letters (nearest by frequency rank).
Similar misspelling depth
Headwords with a similar count of attested misspellings (8 here; floor ≥5).